Romeo and/or Juliet, my choose-your-own-path version of Romeo and Juliet with over a hundred endings illustrated by the best artists working today, comes out June 7th! It’s got FOUR playable characters, secret endings, secret books-within-a-book, a comic book section, AND MORE - and we’re spending the month until release playing the book, starting at the first page, seeing what happens, and letting YOU decide what happens next! You can also pre-order the book right now - and when you do you can enter to win FREE ART and PRIZES! :0
Yesterday as Juliet we had crashed our parent’s party (turns out its a costume party) and had to decide between kicking butt and vomiting all over ourselves. The consensus was to go nuts and kick some butts! So let’s do that!
You push open the double doors to the party room. The instant you do, the music comes to a screeching stop mid-note, and everyone turns to look at you. This is your moment!
“Great party you’ve got here,” you say. “It’d be a shame if anyone happened to get beat up during it.”
“Who are you to make threats?” someone nearby says, a young man wearing a ridiculous unicorn mask with a rainbow mane. You glance at him. You’re too mad right now to be fully aware of how rockin’ his bod is, if indeed his bod be rockin’, but even through your anger you can tell he’s at least pretty good. A solid seven out of ten.
You punch him right in the eye.
“I want everyone to know,” the man says, “that this woman outpunches other women like a boxer in the middle of a ring of babies.” Then he goes down hard.
You feel a little bad about it, but then you realize he’s probably just like those guys in the Romeo District. If you hadn’t punched him just now he’d probably have tried some dumb line on you, like “Girl, are you an orphanage, because I want to give you kids,” or “Girl, are you a corn plant, because I’m stalking you,” or “Girl, are you hearing my soul speak, because the very instant that I saw you did my heart fly to your service.”
You look around the room. “You guys want to leave, or should I keep punching?” you shout. You swing your arms like windmills and advance on the party.
“She’s drunk!” someone shouts.
“She’s awesome,” the man you punched whispers.
You kick him as you walk by.
The party clears out pretty quickly, the partygoers moving around you to the door like water around a rock. Pretty soon just your parents remain.
“No, Juliet, sweetie, go to bed,” your mother says. I command it.”
“Oooh Juliet, go to bed,” you say in high-pitched mockery, advancing towards them, your arms still spinning. “Oooh Juliet, don’t leave the house ever. Oooh Juliet, be best friends with your childhood nurse because you don’t know anyone else! Oooh Juliet, definitely marry this random stranger on a moment’s notice!”
Your parents take a step backwards for every step you take forward.
“Well I’m not doing it, okay?” you say. “I’m done. Done with this house, done with your rules, done with you both and your stupid marriage ideas. I’m done, okay? DONE.” Your parents are still moving backwards as you move forward, now adjusting their paths so that they can back out the door. You push them outside.
“And on second thought I’m not done with the house,” you say. “I’m gonna keep it.” You close the door in their faces. “You guys can live in the gardening shed,” you shout through the door. “It’s like a three-bedroom gardening shed with a finished basement! YOU’LL BE FINE.”
You hear the noise of their shuffling off, and you quickly make a lap of the house, locking all the other doors and ground-level windows. Then you go to bed.
You wake up the next morning feeling great.
You get out of bed, have a quick bath, and get dressed. When you leave your bedroom you notice a lot of the servants are there, wondering why all the doors are locked shut.
“Oh, right,” you say, remembering last night. “Right, sorry. I’m the boss now, everybody. You can all come and go as you please. But nobody gets in without my permission, and that includes my parents. They live in the gardening shed now,” you say.
You eventually do let your parents in for visits, and things are cordial. They’re happy with their simpler retirement living in the shed, you’re happy that they don’t tell you what to do anymore, and your servants are happy to work for someone who doesn’t regularly throw parties that a large percentage of the entire town is invited to. It’s surprising how happy everyone is with this new arrangement!
Several years later you run into that dude you punched at the party. Turns out his name literally is Romeo (hilarious), but despite that he’s one of the more charming people you’ve met. You date for several months and both your parents are against it but who cares? Everything’s going great until someone new catches his eye and he dumps you overnight.
Glad you didn’t rush into that one, huh??
After him you have a series of really satisfying flings with some really satisfying people, and then one day, you meet Cesario. He’s not like any of the men you’ve met before, and while he’s definitely not the kind of person you ever thought you’d find yourself falling for, life is for exploring, right?
And that’s what the two of you do, together, happily ever after.
So! You avoided rushing into marriage, you knew to drink water while drinking alcohol to avoid dehydration, and you ended up in one of the few happily-ever-after endings in this whole book! I award you… 32,767 points.
Any more and you’d overflow our point counter!
And that’s the end of this adventure! Haha wow you guys got a happy ending for Juliet in almost record time. Nicely done! The art here is by Carly Monardo aka @tickledfancy and she is great.
So! Now we can follow the:
PARTY OPTION: …go back in time a bit and JOIN THE PARTY your mom organized instead of attacking everyone right off the bat
BOY OPTION: …be Romeo for a bit, he’s probably up to some shenanigans
Fav to party as Juliet, reblog to switch to Romeo, and we’ll continue the book! And since the book in question isn’t out yet, be sure to preorder it and then enter here to win free art! YOU COULD WIN A FREE ART :0